Genocide in Darfur

OK last blog. This one is going to be a good one, thats why i saved it for last! Last summer, I had the opportunity to go to Uganda to see the invisible children. Afterwards, I was asked to go to Sudan where I could see it even better, but I had to decline in order to attend school. There is a great evil going on over there right now. Omar Al Bashir is perhaps the most evil man ever to walk the Earth. He has done things that would make Hitler look like a saint. If you do not know who Omar is, we is the dictator of Sudan. He also happens to be in open trade with the Al Quida and Taliban. He was rated the worst dictator in the world last year, taking Kim Jong ill II of North Korea's place. So what exactly is he doing?
Omar is genociding his own people. He is testing biological weapons on his own people. They have been forced to flee Sudan and travel across the border to north Uganda. Uganda has its own problems however. In Uganda, the LRA (Liberations resistance army) is kidnapping kids out of their homes in the middle of the night and training them to be soldiers by making them do unthinkable things like killing their families and stuff. All this so that they can take over the Ugandan government. the Uganda government is doing almost nothing about it until recently. After organizations such as the invisible children started up, congress decided it was time to act. After pressure from the U.S. government, Uganda decided to have peace talks. They are still going on now.
But that is a quick rundown of what is going on. If you want to find out more, go to the invisible childrens website and they will tell you everything. Thanks for listening!

Southern Miss Schedule

Since I put out the Florida schedule, I thought it only fair to the school that I actually go to to put out its schedule as well. So here is southern misses schedule in case you want to know it.

8/30/08	vs. Louisiana-Lafayette	Hattiesburg, Miss.	6:00 p.m. CT
09/06/08	at Auburn	Auburn, Ala.	TBA
09/13/08	at Arkansas State	Jonesboro, Ark.	TBA
09/20/08	vs. Marshall *	Hattiesburg, Miss.	2:30 p.m. CT
10/04/08	vs. UTEP *	Hattiesburg, Miss.	6:00 p.m. CT
10/11/08	vs. Boise State	Hattiesburg, Miss.	7:00 p.m. CT
10/18/08	at Rice *	Houston, Texas	TBA
10/25/08	at Memphis	Memphis, Tenn.	7:00 p.m. CT
11/01/08	vs. UAB *	Hattiesburg, Miss. (Homecoming)	7:00 p.m. CT
11/08/08	at UCF *	Orlando, Fla.	TBA
11/15/08	vs. East Carolina *	Hattiesburg, Miss.	2:00 p.m. CT
11/29/08	at SMU *	Dallas, Texas	TBA

OK here it is. Enjoy!

Ramblings on Phenomena

So I am completely out of things to write about. i gotta come up woth one more topic at least before I will be satisfied. I don't know how many of these things I gotta make up. What the heck lets roll with the Bermuda Triangle. I don't know much about it. It starts at Bermuda and heads south through Florida and over Cuba and stuff like that. From what I hear a lot of planes and ships crash there. Thats pretty strange. I wonder why? If you have any ideas then respond!
Also there is things like the loch ness monster and bigfoot and yetis and stuff. I don't know much about them either. Bigfoot is supposed to be roaming North America. The lock ness is supposed to be in some Swedish loch or something. And the yeti thing is supposed to be in the Himilayas. I seriously doubt these things exist but they will allow me to write a few more sentences for this blog. i really need to learn to type without looking. I t would help alot. I should have payed more attention during high school. Oh well, maybe I will teach myself this summer. Lets see, any other phenomena? Aliens.... I doubt it...... Who killed JFK? Thats a good one. I couldn't tell you but the conspiracy theorist do make some pretty good points. But at any rate, I am going to write one more blog. And call it a semester. Maybe two but I seriously doubt it!

Washers

OK I don't know about Mississippi, but in Alabama we play this game called washers. Its a very easy game to comprehend(It has to be if it was made in Alabama). The game is very similar to horseshoes if you have ever played it. If you haven't then don't read this blog because I honestly am tired of writing and do not feel like explaining it.
The Concept of the game is simple, be the first to 21 points by ringing a washer into a hole in the ground or getting close to it. If you don't know what a washer is then again skip this because i don't feel like explaining it. Its a two player game. Its played in rounds and you get two washers to throw a round. If you ring the hole in the ground you will receive 3 points. If somebody else rings it after you, these points will be negated. Consequently, if you throw a washer in on somebody else, the points will be negated. If nobody rings the hole, 1 point will be awarded to the person who gets closest. Once again it is a game to 21, but you have to win by 2. Also, there are two holes in the ground (usually made out of PVC pipe) that make up the playing field. The two holes are like 30 feet apart or around that I cannot remember the exact number. You stand at one and throw in the other. then each round, you swap up. I think that about sums it up. It is a pretty fun game, you should give it a try sometime.

Florida Schedule

OK Im only going to do three more of these things, then im calling it a semester( and by semester I mean Crawfish Fest! Even though I am allergic to crawfish so this could be a bad idea). Today has pretty much been the most ADD day ever. I just cannot concentrate right now. So anyways my favorite football team is the florida gators. Here is their schedule for next year!

August 30*		Hawai'i		Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, FL
September 6*		Miami (FL)		Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, FL
September 20		at Tennessee		Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN
September 27		Ole Miss		Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, FL
October 4		at Arkansas		Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium • Fayetteville, AR
October 11		LSU		Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, FL
October 25†		Kentucky		Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, FL
November 1		vs. Georgia		Jacksonville Municipal Stadium • Jacksonville, FL
November 8		at Vanderbilt		Vanderbilt Stadium • Nashville, TN
November 15		South Carolina		Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, FL
November 22*		The Citadel		Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, FL
November 29*		at Florida State		Doak Campbell Stadium • Tallahassee, FL

The pollen problem and a radical solution!

So I was reading the student printz the other day when I came across an article talking about the pollen problem on campus and how to fix it. I thought it was really interesting and by interesting i mean funny because clearly his solution was perhaps one of the worst solutions that i have ever heard. So I will briefly outline it for you.
It started off normal. It stated the problem. It simply said that the pollen problem on campus is bad. This is a true statement, but the pollen problem is bad no matter where you go in the south (and possibly the north to, but I have not spent enough time there to tell you about it). But that was not the funny part of the article. The funny part of the article came in his solution.
It sounded like he was going to give a normal solution. Then all of a sudden, out of the blue he proposes that we cut all the oak trees down and replace them with fake trees. He is very well researched, he knows exactly what this is going to cost. His only problem is that he fails to realize that cutting down all of the trees is the dumbest idea ever. I mean i'm no tree hugger but cutting down all the trees is just strait up a bad idea. I mean we do need oxygen!

The journey of the couch!

So a few minutes ago, A friend of mine asked me to help him move a couch out to his truck. I quickly agreed, needing to get up from writing all these posts (This is my 5th or 6th one today I'm pretty sure, I lost count). So I went over to his dorm and we got the couch. After a few struggles getting it out the door, we decided to take the elevator down instead of the stairs (we live on the 3rd floor). It was tricky getting the couch to actually go into the elevator. We ended up having to twist it sideways and tilt it a little forward. But it eventually fit and we got it inside the elevator. Unfortunately for us, there were some other people on some other floors who decided that they needed to ride the elevator as well. So we ended up on the sixth floor with like 7 people in the elevator. There was also this one guy on the fifth floor who, when the doors opened, just laughed at us and said "Of course, Why wouldn't the elevator have 6 people in it and a couch!". Then he said he would take the next one. But anyways the journey continued and we eventually made it to the lobby. Then came the hard part of actually getting it out of the buildings. We eventually had to lift it up on its side, then rotate it sideways so that it was like an L. Then we wedged it out of the building. We then proceeded to take the couch to the guys truck. Mission accomplished!

Marshmallow Shooters! What?

So i saw this commercial right before lunch. It was about this new children's toy called a marshmallow shooter, or something like that. Apparently it is a gun that shoots marshmallows. I guess its supposed to be safe or something, I dunno but it is the worst idea that I have ever heard, besides a bunch of others. Ill write about another one in a minute. By the way i hope these things are not due yet, I don't remember the exact time.
The first problem with this marshmallow shooter idea is the fact that there are starving children both in America and all over the world. And what does America do? It makes a toy that shoots food everywhere! That a way to portray to the world that you don't give a rip about world hunger. call me naive for attacking a toy like this, but I have seen the starving kids in Africa with my own two eyes, and it makes me sick sometimes to think that Americans have the wealth to solve it but we don't. But thats another story for another time. Back to this product.
The second problem with this contraption is a lot more logical. Whats going to happen when you shoot a lot of marshmallows everywhere? There is going to be a lot of marshmallows everywhere! This leads to two problems. One is you are going to have to clean it up. Two is that you are going to have sugar ants everywhere. Good job, person who made this, you just boarded the failboat!

Live news feeds or something of the sorts

OK im about to take a break from blog writing and go get something to eat, but before i do, I just want to share one more thing with you. Or two things, we will see how this goes. So I heard about this website called livenewscameras.com a minute ago on the radio. Apparently , you can watch live news feed from all over the world on this website. So i decided to go on it and check it out. Its pretty cool. Youi can watch the local news from all over America or from all over the world. So if i wanted to watch WKRG 5 from mobile, because thats where im from, then i could just go on this website and watch it.
You can also watch international news feeds. So if i for some crazy reason wanted to watch Al Jazeera in Iraq, you could. I am actually trying to watch it right now. Not becuase I am anti-american because I'm not, I love america! I just want to see if it actually works. So yeah thats a pretty cool website. Check it out sometime. Lievenewscameras.com. Pretty east name to remember. Or if you don't like news, then don't check it out. Its up to you! Haha! I'm hungry, I'm going to lunch. When I get back, I shall write about this commercial I just saw selling this crazy thing. Learn more soon!

The Preamble and a random ramble about the education of jews!

LOL So heres a good piece of writing. The Preamble to the Constitution!!!!

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

This is a good writing by our founding fathers. People don't write like they used to thats for sure. Old lititure is so much better than modern lititure, its not even funny. I was expecting the preamble to be longer for some reason. I guess when we had to memorize it in high school, it seemed alot longer. Jewish kids at the time of Jesus's birth had to memorize the entire first five books of the bible by the time they were like 10. It was called the Pentacuh or something like that back then. My how education has slipped these past few thousand years!

Baha Blast

So me and a couple of friends had a debate about this the other day. (Dont ask how we got on this random subject, I don't know.) The amazing piece of art known as Mountain Dew: Baha Blast is available only at taco bell. The question that was posed is if baha blast was commercialized, meaning that mountain dew sold it everywhere, would it still be the masterpiece that it is. There were quite a few arguments going both ways. Here is some of the stuff we came up with.
At first, we said NO it wouldn't. It was stated that the only reason that Baha Blast is good is because you can only get it at taco bell. That if it was commercialized, it wouldn't be as good simply because we would get accustomed to the taste. This was a good argument, until we simply realized that it was not true.
We then said YES it is. We said this because many of us realized that the only reason we go to taco bell is because of the baha blast. We then realized that taco bell must be paying alot of money to keep it in their store.
Vote YES to commercialize baha blast! Even though there is no voting going on.....

P.S. I am clearly running out of ideas for blogs!

The worlds hardest game

So I decided to see if i could find the worlds hardest game the other day. After typing it in n google, i came across this game called " the worlds hardest game". I must say that this game lives up to is title. I finally beat the game after about 700 deaths. This saddened me because the game really wasn't that hard once you figured out the pattern to everything. I went back and beat it with like 170 deaths. So yeah, due to the lack of blogs I decided that you should know this. So if you want to play it, i will leave a link at the end of this. I have to warn you tht you probably will not beat it the first time. I had to leave it minimized on my computer over the course of a few days. At first, it may actually seem like the worlds hardest game but its ok you will get used to the patterns and be mastering it in n time. The last thing that i would like to mention is the fact that the last level is not nearly the hardest level. That was kinda dumb but oh well......

Here is a link: http://www.addictinggames.com/theworldshardestgame.html

Enjoy!

A pretty cool online game

I got bored today so i went online to find some games to play to pass the time. I found a pretty cool one called magic pen. Basically you draw shapes in order to get this ball to the end of the level/ Now I know that it may sound dumb, but you got to try it out before you judge, it will change your life! I have made it to level 16 now. They are getting crazy. I even had to resort to going on youtube and looking up one level. Its pretty intense! Ill add a link that you can click on to play, but i got to warn you, you probably wont stop playing anytime soon.

http://www.bubblebox.com/play/puzzle/975.htm

copy and paste this link because i dont know how to make it a hyperlink. Enjoy!

Last week of Classes!!!!

So its the last week of classes! I don't exactly know how I'm going to make this blog real long because this is about all i have to write. I have 2 finals i have to stay for next week. One in Geography and one in History. I also haven't seen my adviser yet! I definitely need to do that this week. I am going to get the worst classes for waiting so long. But thats life. I also have a paper due in English and Geography. I am almost done with my English paper. I am going over it now. I missed my conference last week. For some reason, I assumed it would be in the classroom but it was in my teachers office. I don't have a clue where that teachers office is. On top of that, I lost my syllabus. It was in my backpack when my backpack got stolen from the cafeteria. So that screwed me up pretty bad. I feel bad about that because i made an appointment and missed it. So it has not been the greatest week of my life. But i cant complain. So thats pretty much been my week.
I have not even started on my paper in Geopraphy. I will do that right after this. Im hungry, im gonna go get some lunch! Then get back to work on this stuff! This should be my last blog but its not going to be . I have to do a bunch of make ups! So ill probably do another one of these tonight. If not, ill do a few tomorrow.

Whats up with the Janitors this semester? Part 1

So for some reason, this semester the janitors have decided not to do their job. I'm not saying that i don't appreciate the custodial staff and what they do, because I do. I'm just saying, this semester, for some reason, they feel that they don't need to do even simple jobs like take out the trash. When push comes to shove, we are paying them to work, and I am seeing no work being done in my dorm.

It all started this semester for some reason. Last semester was fine. The janitors had no problem with us and we had no problem with them. We would even talk to each other. But this semester they came in our room and then started complaining about how dirty it was. That was quite insulting considering that they came into our room and told us was dirty. If I would have done that to their house, I would have been kicked out instantly. But we just let it slide.

Then they made us take everything we had out of the kitchen area. We had a recliner, a TV, a play station, and all sorts of stuff in the area. they were fine with it last semester. They never said anything abut it. But this semester, they just got mad and decided it had to go. So after a long battle with the janitors and RHA, we finally decided to take it all out. But all respect for the janitors were lost at that point.

Now the janitors have decided to take all the trash cans out of the halls except for one. We used to have four in our hall. Now we only have one. One trashcan is not enough for a hallway of people to share. The result has been piles of trash on and around the trash cans. We asked RHA about it, and they said that they had nothing to do with it but that they were just as upset. So how did the janitors respond to the trash buildup? Find out in part 2 of this article!

How to make a small crossbow out of common hosehold items

So I saw this on my Google homepage today, and since I'm behind in blogs, thought id post it. Enjoy.

Steps
1. Line up two of the pencils parallel to each other and secure them with tape, leaving at least a centimeter untaped at both ends in order to leave a space for the rubber band later. Repeat for the other two pencils.

2. Create a cross that looks like a lowercase "t" with the two pairs of pencils. Secure them in that position with either tape (electric tape works best), rubber bands, or glue.

3. Unscrew the tip of a cheap or useless pen. Unscrew the other side of the pen, and then take out all of the inner mechanisms. (Save the ink cartridge because that will be used as the ammo later.) After doing that, you should end up with a hollow tube.

4. Secure the tube to the vertical side of the cross with tape.

5. Stretch a rubber band horizontally across the crossbow, anchoring it between the two pencils and going over the pen in the middle.

6. Wrap a piece of tape around the middle of the rubber band where it passes over the pen.

7. Tie a rubber band between the pencils and the bottom of the hollow pen. This is to add elevation, which will come in handy later.

8. Put the ink cartridge back into the tube so that it's sticking out slightly.

9. Stretch the rubber-band to the end of the tube.

10. Grab the ink cartridge, pull it back further with the rubber band, and let go.

Its 2 in the morning! What am I still doing up?

I had a good Easter! It was nice to dress up and hang out with the family. It was also nice to get a day off of school, even though we just got back from spring break. Its also nice that Jesus died for us, so he definitely deserves for us to remember that.
Its like two o clock in the morning and I just remembered that this blog was due. This is actually the first blog I have written in a while so im surprised that I remembered! Maybe ill go on a streak and write like 20 blogs. Probably not because im already running out of things to say! But you never know! No definitly not! I am completly out of things to say. Im going to try to get in one more paragraph though.
I got a class at nine in the morning so I really need to go to bed. Yet strangely I am not tired. But I think I am going to attempt to hit the sack now anyways. So good night everybody! Hope you all have a great sleep! Its two in the morning, what am I still doing up?

Essay Assignment

Heres an idea for an essay assignment. What are three things that you could be doing during class time?

The U.S's Plan to Shoot Down That Satellite

So have you heard about that satellite thats up in space and is about to crash onto the Earth? It weighs five tons and is radioactive and they don't know where it is going to crash, only that it might kill people. So after much deliberation, the U.S. has decided to shoot it down with an anti-missile missile(talk about an oxymoron). Of course China doesn't like this and they are getting mad at America.
So i was thinking about where the sattelite may land. I was thinking that the earth is 75 percent water, so it only has a 25 percent chance to hit land. While these may seem like good odds, human lives are at stake. And as a professor of mine once said, "There are lives at stake here, you cannot round to early!"
So here is my plan! We nuke China and say "Whoops, we missed!" Just kidding about that. I'm kinda running out of things to talk about. But the whole point of this blog is to basically say that America rocks! Cause when the push comes to shove, we are the ones shooting the satellites out of the sky to keep the world safe!

Swamped

Ever wonder why everything in college is due on the same week? I mean, I have 2 tests and a major paper due on Tuesday, I just took a test Friday, and I am sure that I have an English paper due soon as well. I mean I can't complain because this is college and I am supposed to work hard but I still think thats its a little ironic that everything is due the same week. I just can't seem to find enough time in the day to get everything done. But enough of that subject.
So I have not wrote in this blog in a while so I have a little catching up to do. So I am going to write at least two a week for a few weeks to catch up. First I need to say a word or two about the super bowl.
Was that not the most amazing super bowl you have ever seen. I mean I am assuming that you saw it but then of course that would be a wise assumption considering that it was the second most watched show ever behind the series finale to one of the greatest shows ever, M.A.S.H. But i must say, Eli Manning is the man! I told everybody that the giants were going to win(right after I told them that the Packers were going to win). Nobody believed me, but they pulled through. I will admit that after the Pats scored in the 4th, I thought the game was over. then I saw Eli make the play of the century and thats when I knew that the Giants were destined to win. Then they won and I was happy for a week. But yeah definitly the best super bowl I have ever seen!

George Bush is the Man!

So I was watching the State of the Union address tonight.... actually I am watching it right now, and I must say, George Bush is the man! Now I don't know what you think about George Bush. The media has made him look alot worse than he actually is. I mean he did inherit a horrible government. Look at Jimmy Carter. He was a half decent president. But everybody hated him. Why? Because two weeks after he got in congress, the economy collapsed. But I'm not here to talk about that. I just wanted to point out some highlights of the speech.

First off, Bush told congress that if they tried to pass a bill that raised taxes, he would "send it back to them with his veto seal on it". I love that. Two reasons. First, because I don't want higher taxes. As a matter of fact he said "Some people said that they would gladly pay higher taxes. I would like them to know that the IRS accepts both checks and money-orders! But for the rest of us, America pays enough." Thats funny! Secondly, I love the fact that the democrats have enough people in congress to override vetoes, yet they can't do it. Now if your democratic, I mean no offense, but that makes George Bush the man.

I don't really want to get into Iraq, because most people are against it and I don't want to debate. But whether you are for or against Iraq, you cannot debate that the new strategy is working. The troop surge has lowered violenc. Thats a fact. Its such a fact, that Bush has decided to send 20,000 troops home. Thats good news in two ways. One because it means we are winning. And two, because it will pacify the media some.

There is one more thing that I want to point out. It has nothing to do with the speech, I just think its ironic. Nanci Poleski, or however you spell that name, was sitting right beside Dick Cheney. Thats funny because she has tried to impeach him like 5 times now! Anyways im going to stop talking about politics before I get in trouble.

The True Story Behind 300

So I was looking for for something to watch on TV the other day, when I saw something interesting on the History Channel. It was named "The True Story Behind 300". It was quite a good show. King Leonidas completed his training at 18. In order to complete his training, he had to go out into the city and kill somebody without getting caught. That was pretty interesting. The women were also taught to fight and if a guy wanted her as his wife, but the women didn't want him, then she would the crap out of him. The spartens were were the first real professionals of war craft.

But that is about all I watched of this amazing show before I got tired and went to sleep. That night I had a dream. I dreamed I was a sparten in the battle of Thermopile. I was scared to death, but I fought valiantly. OK, so I made that part up, but I was running of things to talk about. but this blog, or web log as i have learned it is short for, has to be slightly longer, so I must write a little more. Did I mention that Leonidas believes he is the descendant of Heirocles. I don't know who that is but its true, he did.


But anyways, I have a class now. So I am afraid that I can no longer write in this blog. I need to make good grades and all that so goodbye. Im not real sure how to end these things so I will just say bye. Bye!